Elon Musk is now saying that they caught a saboteur in Tesla ["making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties"](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/elon-mu ... otage.html).

This is why you have to keep your employees gruntled.

If Trump supporters wanted a tough guy, why did they elect such a whiny bitch? - Mo

He totally is. And so are his companies. Apparently Tesla Solar (nee SolarCity) is really tanking, and was tanking before being "bought out" by Tesla. Tesla cars is also now losing their per vehicle subsidy (since they've sold enough vehicles), and there's still a lot of skepticism about their actual construction, with them "certifying" 5000 cars in one week by constructing them in tents and certifying #5000 at 4 AM on Sunday. Noone will be surprised if they drop back down under 3000 cars per week for an indefinite future. Basically, all of Musk's promises are coming back to him, and there's less excuse making that's got traction now.

"Sharks do not go around challenging people to games of chance like dojo breakers."

Further thoughts on the subject: it's not "just" pedophilia accusations popular among alt-righters, but sexually charged insults in general. Remember, this is the group that made "cuckservative," later shortened to "cuck," a go-to insult for their political opponents.

"Myself, despite what they say about libertarians, I think we're actually allowed to pursue options beyond futility or sucking the dicks of the powerful." -- Eric the .5b

He totally is. And so are his companies. Apparently Tesla Solar (nee SolarCity) is really tanking, and was tanking before being "bought out" by Tesla. Tesla cars is also now losing their per vehicle subsidy (since they've sold enough vehicles), and there's still a lot of skepticism about their actual construction, with them "certifying" 5000 cars in one week by constructing them in tents and certifying #5000 at 4 AM on Sunday. Noone will be surprised if they drop back down under 3000 cars per week for an indefinite future. Basically, all of Musk's promises are coming back to him, and there's less excuse making that's got traction now.

Musk has always been an overpromising asshole. Both Hyperloop and the Boring Company are things that basically can't work. It's not quite to the level of "I'm going to found a company to design a perpetual motion machine. Some haters doubt me, but I believe in the power of technology and engineering ingenuity." But it's close.

Tesla and SpaceX are both things that actually could be done, so they were more successful. But Tesla is now at the point where the main challenges are boring grunt work like hammering out a supply chain and optimizing the assembly line by .2%. And that doesn't seem to be what Musk is interested in in any way.

He totally is. And so are his companies. Apparently Tesla Solar (nee SolarCity) is really tanking, and was tanking before being "bought out" by Tesla. Tesla cars is also now losing their per vehicle subsidy (since they've sold enough vehicles), and there's still a lot of skepticism about their actual construction, with them "certifying" 5000 cars in one week by constructing them in tents and certifying #5000 at 4 AM on Sunday. Noone will be surprised if they drop back down under 3000 cars per week for an indefinite future. Basically, all of Musk's promises are coming back to him, and there's less excuse making that's got traction now.

Musk has always been an overpromising asshole. Both Hyperloop and the Boring Company are things that basically can't work. It's not quite to the level of "I'm going to found a company to design a perpetual motion machine. Some haters doubt me, but I believe in the power of technology and engineering ingenuity." But it's close.

Tesla and SpaceX are both things that actually could be done, so they were more successful. But Tesla is now at the point where the main challenges are boring grunt work like hammering out a supply chain and optimizing the assembly line by .2%. And that doesn't seem to be what Musk is interested in in any way.

Yeah, the thing has always been that he promises stuff that nobody could deliver on, then when he doesn't deliver on half of it, it's "Well, nobody could do that." But his problems have been that he's promised things that 1) other companies do and 2) are things that his companies definitely NEED to do. 5000 cars per week is a huge one. And he's now been putting that off for about a year, and distracting people with "Hey look, a flamethrower! Hey look, a semi-truck! Hey look, a new roadster!" But now the real money behind his company is starting to be like "Hey, that's all cool, but where's my car? Where's my profitability? And that completely self-serving SolarCity move did NOT help his reputation among those folks at all. Everyone saw it for what it was: A bailout of his badly failing company by his not-yet-failing company to (not really) hide the fact that it was failing.

"Sharks do not go around challenging people to games of chance like dojo breakers."